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Google's New Privacy Policy Starts March 1

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Friday, 24 February 2012

Google's New Privacy Policy Starts March 1

Are you concerned with your online privacy
and don't want your history to be tracked by Google? Starting on March
1, 2012 Google is bringing together 60 disparate privacy documents into
one umbrella policy. As a result any service associated with your Google
account will reference your web history including all your search
activity and some browsing history. In fact, unless you've previously
turned this feature off you'll find that you can pull your entire Google
search history by logging into your Gmail account and visit - http://google.com/history

When
signed into your Google account the history logs will allow Google to
give a personalized touch when viewing specific sites. Examples include
location-based schedule reminders and targeted advertisements. For
instance, if you spend a lot of time dealing with mobile broadband and
visit YouTube, you might be taken to our 3Gstore YouTube Channel
based on your previous search history. There is also a new feature that
integrates Google+ data into your searches, which offers filtered
search results and personalized auto complete search features.

Not
everyone is going to be thrilled with having all their search history
revealed because it could reveal identifying information about your
location, sexual orientation, age interests, religion and health
concerns. If you're concerned with Google tracking your every move just
log into your Gmail account and visit http://google.com/history
Click on the "Remove all Web History" button, hit okay and confirm on
the next page. This will "pause" your search history and won't actively
record your searches stopping Google from keeping a record of what your
searching for!